Giant abdominal urate tumor-like mass with multiple crystalline deposits in the bowel and lung walls in a patent with terminal heart failure

The paper describes a unique case of a large abdominal urate mass with a peculiar inflammatory process with giant cells and smaller urate deposits in the lung and small bowel without articular changes and kidney injury in a patient with terminal heart failure.

Authors
Moiseev V.S. 1 , Varshavsky V.A.2 , Shavarov A.A. 1 , Reshetin V.V.3 , Petrov A.A. 1
Language
Russian
Pages
22-25
Status
Published
Volume
86
Year
2014
Organizations
  • 1 Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 2 I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 3 City Clinical Hospital Sixty-Four, Moscow Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russian Federation
Keywords
Extraarticular tophi; Gout; Heart failure; Uric acid
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